1762 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1762?
- January 4, 1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
- March 10, 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
- May 5, 1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
- May 22, 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- July 17, 1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
- September 15, 1762 – Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
- October 6, 1762 – Seven Years’ War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
Who Were Born In The Year 1762?
- January 5, 1762 – Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
- February 8, 1762 – Emperor Gia Long the founded the Nguyễn Dynasty, the last of the Vietnamese dynasties (d. 1820)
- April 10, 1762 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
- April 29, 1762 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833)
- May 19, 1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814)
- June 1, 1762 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844)
- July 21, 1762 – Timothy Hinman, pioneer road builder
- August 12, 1762 – King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
- October 16, 1762 – Paul Hamilton, American politician (d. 1816)
- October 21, 1762 – Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (d. 1818)
- October 23, 1762 – Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
- October 30, 1762 – André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
- November 1, 1762 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)
- November 20, 1762 – Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833)
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